The Nightlife: Open Mic Night at Fenner’s is Back
Open Mic night is back! Season Three started last Wednesday at Fat Face Fenner’s Fishack. Your pick: sing or listen. The best in live acoustic music. Every Wednesday starting 8pm. Sign-ups at 7:30pm. You get 3 songs or 15 minutes. Bring acoustic instruments. Bring friends. No drums. Although no house band, there’ll be guitarists around who can […]
Dive Catalina Island with these simple steps
Sometimes divers don’t want to want to spend the weekend on a crowded boat, or have to fight the surf on a beach dive. That’s when it’s time to dive Catalina Island. For $71.50 (round trip) the Catalina Express will get you to the island in just over an hour. Parking at the terminal is […]
Brook and River bring small smiles to Saint Rocke
There’s something called small smiles. It’s a quirky approach to smiling, in which the smiler attempts to suppress the smile to a restricted breadth. It sounds silly, and it is, maybe even eerie, like something from The Twilight Zone; but it’s also quite difficult to achieve, the primary obstacle being laughter. To simply not smile […]
“Monsieur Lazhar”: a gentleman and a scholar [MOVIE REVIEW]
A much-loved teacher at a Montreal middle school has hung herself in her classroom leaving nothing but questions and a hole in the heart of her young students, especially Simon, who discovered her, and Alice who ventured to look. In need of emotional guidance and a new teacher, Bashir Lazhar appears, seemingly out of nowhere, […]
“Lockout” – better off locked up [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Lockout,” the major release competing with “The Three Stooges” for your entertainment dollars would, on the surface, seem to be the action lover’s choice. It’s not. Instead, I wouldn’t discount its unintentional comedy value heightened by hackneyed dialogue, over-the-top villains, bad acting and terrible chemistry. Taking place in the near-distant future, Snow, an agency operative […]
Hermosa Beach container ban delayed
The Hermosa Beach City Council has delayed approval of a ban on restaurants’ use of polystyrene takeout containers, including foam takeout boxes and cups, to ensure that the ban will not affect grocery stores’ use of similar containers for items such as vegetables, fruit and milk. Continued study of the ban was backed by Councilmen […]
PCH bridges mulled for Hermosa Beach
Jeff Duclos called for consideration of one or more pedestrian bridges over Pacific Coast Highway to provide new city gateway landmarks, make it safer to cross the highway, and to link the east and west sides of “the divided city,” as he assumed the Hermosa Beach City Council’s rotating mayoralty. He said money could be […]
Two enshrined on Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame
Dazzling golden sunshine bathed former U.S. Surfing Champion Mark Levy and widely published surf photographer Steve Wilkings as they were formally inducted onto the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame in a Saturday ceremony at the foot of the city pier. Wilkings grew misty-eyed when he offered “a special thank you” to another Walk of […]
Power hours- The future of the AES power plant will soon be decided
The AES power plant, with its expansive blue “Whaling Wall,” by famed muralist Wyland, and its towering smokestacks has dominated the Redondo Beach water front since 1897. Its stacks can be viewed from as far away as Malibu and Palos Verdes. Now, a door has been opened that could re-shape the Redondo waterfront. AES is […]
Chasing giants with Alex Gray
After his dream of competing on the professional world surfing tour was derailed, former Peninsula High surfer Alex Gray turned his sights on bigger game.
Beach cities are ‘on the same page’
• Pages Bookstore: April 12, 7 to 8:30 p.m., 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach • Beach Cities Health District: April 17, 7 to 8 p.m., 514 N. Prospect Ave., Redondo Beach • Redondo Beach North Library: April 18, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., 2000 Artesia Blvd., Redondo Beach • Manhattan Beach Library: April 21, 10:30 to […]
Angel girl: Manhattan Beach’s Alex Curry becomes the face of the Los Angeles Angels
In the mid-1990s, a feral-eyed dark-haired girl could be found running through the trees surrounding Sand Dune Park in north Manhattan Beach. Her family, the Currys, lived on the street just above the park.